{"id":717,"date":"2008-10-21T17:09:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T17:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/european-hydrogen-fuel-initiative-launched\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:17","slug":"european-hydrogen-fuel-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/european-hydrogen-fuel-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"European hydrogen fuel initiative launched"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Commission last week launched the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Technology Initiative (JTI), a public private partnership with joint funding from the European Community (EU) and from industry with industry in the lead. The Commission will fund \u00e2\u201a\u00ac470m (US$615m) from the FP7 program over six years and at least the same amount will come from private industry. <\/p>\n

The promise is that the JTI will to deliver robust hydrogen supply and fuel cell technologies developed to the point of commercial take-off. For the automotive sector, the aim is to achieve breakthroughs in bottleneck technologies and to enable industry to take the large-scale commercialization decisions necessary to achieve mass market growth in the time-frame 2015-2020. For stationary fuel cells (domestic and commercial) and portable applications, the JTI will provide the technology base to initiate market growth from 2010-2015.<\/p>\n

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According to a statement<\/a> released by the initiative, “hydrogen should be seen as a complementary energy vector to electricity and biofuels. It is already part of today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s industrial technology; yet for energy use the real benefits can only be exploited with novel technologies such as fuel cells. As hydrogen can be produced from a great variety of primary energies and it can be advantageously utilized in a great variety of different applications (transport, portable and stationary power) it will form an energy hub like electric power. <\/p>\n

“Hydrogen has the advantage over electricity that it can be stored much better, which could be used to match renewable power supply and power demand. Hydrogen can be carbon-dioxide-free or lean on its energy pathway if produced appropriately and it can be used as a transportation fuel without emitting carbon dioxide.”<\/p>\n

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